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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
William of Ockham

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Irvin S. Cobb

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
A. J. Liebling

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge

If two things don’t fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that’s credulity.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.






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